NASA finds Titan's alien lakes may be creating primitive cells
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- NASA research suggests Titan's methane and ethane lakes could form vesicles, primitive cell-like structures.
- Titan is the only other world besides Earth with liquid on its surface, but it's hydrocarbons, not water.
- Amphiphiles, molecules that self-organize into vesicles, could form in Titan's unique environment.
- Vesicles on Titan might form from sea-spray droplets coated in amphiphiles, creating bilayer structures.
- The Dragonfly mission will explore Titan's surface but won't directly study its lakes or vesicles.